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The Mind: Aristotle Kant And Socrates. Daniel C. Dennet said in A Glorious
Accident that, "our minds--if you like-- [are] just ...
... are only comprehensible by the use of the intellect or understanding; ie, a capacity
of the mind that does ... Kant himself thought that Aristotle had done ...
... material world, such as the mind and spiritual ... Encarta, “Aesthetics” p.1). Aristotle
believed “one ... Aesthetics,” p.2). Immanuel Kant, felt “objects ...
... is not considered, (reff.4) as Kant said- …our ... Indeed Aristotle believed that the
soul is the part of ... Descartes posed that the body and mind are separate ...
... Thomas Aquinas bought Aristotle’s ideas to Christianity and tried to ... be sure of and
relations of the mind and body ... Kant-pg 328 Kant thought that how we think ...
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Daniel C. Dennet said in A Glorious Accident that, \\\"our minds--if you like-- [are] just as
real as our dreams\\\"(Kayzer, 37). The implications of this statement are substantial, for if this is
true--if our minds and our consciousness are just dreams or the constructs of our brain, what we
perceive, our memories, and our sense of reality are nothing more than illusions. Not only is this
scientifically a valid statement, but it forces us to question who we are, and what we know . It is
the latter that is of interest at this moment. What I wish to do in this essay is to tie together this
concept of perception and the mind with what we have read in Text and Critics, as well as to
discuss the need for science to find \\\"reality\\\" and \\\"knowledge.\\\"
But, first, we must understand what Dennet means by “our minds being as real as our
dreams”. Dennet\\\'s point is profound and a point that should not be dismissed as a whim of a
philosopher but, instead, a scientific reality-- not the construct of a man\\\'s subjective mind. One is
led to believe that the best way to describe the mind as an illusion is to describe it in terms of
dreams. When we sleep, our external sensory input is shut down. However, our minds, when we
dream, are not in a very different state than when we are awake, other than as said before that our
external sensory input is shut down. Thus, we can conclude that, our waking state is just as
illusionary as our dreams, though with supplementary external sources of information. When
dreaming, we obviously receive sensory input that enables our minds to create dreams with sights,
sounds, touch, taste, emotions, experience, and sometimes even smell. If there is no external
sensory input, we must logically imply that it is coming from internal sources in the brain, the
most obvious one being memory....
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